Michael Harris started developing trading systems in the late 1980s while working for Wall Street firms. He has been an active trader since 1989 and is currently the President of Tradingpatterns.com, a software development company he established in 1999, and Director of Harrison Investments, Inc., a fund management and financial consulting firm for offshore institutional investors and hedge funds. Harris holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and two master's degrees—one in systems engineering and another in operations research.